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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Why Biden Has A Better Chance Of Debate Success Than Obama Did

Here’s the Nonsense:No one outperforms Barack Obama in a debate. Even though he had a bad
night last week in his debate, Joe Biden could never meet expectations like
Obama can.

Here’s the Horse Sense:Obama didn’t meet expectations because they were set far higher than he
is able to perform.But expectations for
Biden are far lower than Obama.Biden
doesn’t even have to win to meet expectations set for him in the debates.

When writing before the debate between Mitt Romney and
Barack Obama, the mainstream media and Democrats were confident that Obama
could not be beaten.With the upcoming
debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan everyone pretty much assumes that Biden
will be outperformed by Ryan, even though the left won’t admit it
publicly.The expectations for Biden are
low, much unlike what the expectations were for Obama in last week’s
debate.But in some ways Biden has a
much better chance of debate success than Obama did.

With a history that is as bumbling and gaffe-prone as anyone
you could probably name, Joe Biden’s debate performance is really not expected
by anyone to be great.In fact, those on
the left are most likely hoping that he just gets through the debate without
getting his foot so far into his mouth that they can’t live it down.Just to refresh your memory, here are just a
few of Biden’s gaffes for which he is so famous:

"My mother believed and my father believed that if I
wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice
President!" – speaking in Youngstown, Ohio, 05-16-2012

"If we do everything
right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're
going to get it wrong." – when he spoke the House Democratic caucus
members’ retreat in Williamsburg, Va., 02-06-2009

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is
articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a
storybook, man." – speaking about Senator Barack Obama during the 2008
Democratic primaries, 01-31-2007

But Barack Obama has been touted as the greatest orator ever
to represent the Democrat Party and the most intelligent man to ever hold the
office of president, even though there’s no evidence for either belief.And because of the image the media and the
Democrats had built up for Obama, they found themselves in too deep when Mitt
Romney trounced the president in last week’s debate.Even the pre-debate efforts to downplay how
well the president may do against Romney weren’t able to lower expectations
enough to save face from the resulting defeat.

The fact is that because of the low expectations for Biden,
he has a low threshold to cross for an acceptable performance.Add to that the fact that Paul Ryan, his
opponent, is known for his number-crunching abilities and strong handle on
facts and policies,Ryan has a much
higher level of expectation to meet.Ryan is expected to mop the floor with Biden, but could very well get
caught up in trouble if he allows Biden to control the debate and take it down
the path of personal stories and examples, whether true or fictional.No matter what numbers Ryan quotes and deeply
detailed analysis he lays out, the way around those arguments is to ignore the
facts and get people to use more right-brained thinking in processing what is
happening in the debate.Facts can be
overcome if the answers given by Biden impact people emotionally enough.And since no one can check on the spot as to
the truth of the answers, it doesn’t matter if the left makes them up, twists
facts, or actually has real examples to back up their claims.

Right-brained thinking is often said to be more emotional
based focusing on feelings while left-brained thinking is often said to be more
logic-based focusing on facts and analysis.The idea that you would want people to use right-brained thinking is
because then, when you talk about things that impact people emotionally, they
will relate to it through feelings and tend to support your side of an
argument.

Salespeople are often trained to try to get people to think
from a right-brained perspective when making a buying decision.Then they can appeal to a person’s emotions
and often win the sale.For example,
getting someone to buy one vehicle over another is often a right-brained
decision.The salesman may appeal to the
emotions regarding safety and therefore sell a car that is known for its safety
features and construction.Or the
salesman may appeal to the emotions of nostalgia and our youth when dealing with one of us males
who is having a mid-life crisis and get us to buy a sports car.

Using this concept, if Biden can tell stories of people
who’ve supposedly benefited from the policies of the Obama/Biden
administration, then he will be striking at the emotions of debate viewers and
will win them over due to their empathy for people in those circumstances.

However, if Ryan can hold his ground and keep the discussion
on statistics and analysis he can and will build a very strong case based on
logic (left-brained thinking).The way
he closes the deal with voters is to bring up stories that move people to
right-brained thinking while he tells stories and gives examples of how the
policies that a Romney/Ryan administration would impact people even more than
what Obama/Biden have to offer.He can
also tell stories of how the current policies have negatively impacted
people.This, once again, moves people
to action because of emotion and nothing is as powerful in gaining support than
getting people to do it from emotion.

Paul Ryan is brilliant at what he does.But his personality is not drawn to use
emotion to drive a decision, His is a personality that will try to convince
people through logic and analysis.Because of that he has to work very hard to also appeal to the emotional
side of voters.

Barack Obama lost the first debate not because he was “off
his game” last week.No, he lost the
debate because Mitt Romney was in his element.This is what Mitt Romney has spent his life doing:encountering situations with huge problems,
figuring out how to fix them, and then implementing solutions that result the
majority of the time in success.That’s the difference
between a true leader and someone who’s just in a leadership position without
the qualifications to be there.In my
new book, No Tomorrows: How To Halt America’s Imminent Collapse And Return To The American Dream – And Why It Must Start With The 2012 Elections, I address
the root problems our nation faces and how to fix them.One is replacing our unqualified leaders with
true leaders.Mitt Romney showed some of
the character traits of a true leader in last week’s debate.

Barack Obama has never done that in his life prior to
politics or in politics.He has no experience
at problem-solving, let alone success at it.Yet the expectations of the media and Democrats since he was nominated
to run in 2008 were set so high because they believed and wanted everyone else
to believe that he was the messiah.He
wasn’t, and now we have his track record to prove it.He lost because he performed in the debate no
better than he usually performs.His
opponent this time was far more qualified and it showed.

Joe Biden can give the Democrats a respite from the
criticisms of Obama’s performance if he only can hold his own and not make too
many mistakes.Paul Ryan has a much
higher standard to meet.But don’t
forget that Paul Ryan is capable of meeting the expectations set for him.

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